Smith, John: A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French painters: in which is included a short biographical notice of the artists, with a copious description of their principal pictures : a statement of the prices at which such pictures have been sold at public sales on the continent and in England; a reference the the galleries and private collections in which a large portion are at present; and the names of the artists by whom they have been engraved; to which is added, a brief notice of the scholars & imitators of the great masters of the above schools (Part 6) (London: Smith and Son, 1835)

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JACOB KUYSDAEL.

and the colouring is frequently too cold or inky, to
please the eye of the connoisseur.
Ruysdael, like many other excellent landscape
painters, was but an indifferent hand at figures, and
therefore had recourse, as often as possible, to the aid
of other artists: among these may be mentioned
Adrian Vander Velde, Philip and Peter Wouwermans,
Nicholas Berghem, John Lingelbach, Barent Gaal,
Vander Bent, Schellincks, and Vander Leuw.
This highly gifted artist, in addition to his merit
as a painter, has the estimable reputation of having
been a dutiful son. He died, unmarried, in Novem-
ber, 1681, aged 45, according to his biographers, but,
in the writer’s opinion, about 51 years.